Shades of green
varieties of the color green
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation or intensity) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Core definitions of green
Green (sRGB)
The color defined as green in the sRGB color space is approximately the most chromatic green that can be reproduced on an average computer screen, and is the color named green in X11. It is one of the three primary colors used in the sRGB color space along with red and blue. The three additive primaries in the RGB color system are the three colors of light chosen such as to provide the maximum range of colors that are capable of being represented on a computer or television set.
This color is also called regular green. It is at precisely 120 degrees on the HSV color wheel. Its complementary color is magenta.
HTML/CSS uses the name lime for this color, using green to refer to a darker shade.
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